“…It was early spring. They bathed her in the Flower-Pure Pool,
Which warmed and smoothed the creamy-tinted crystal of her skin”
春寒賜浴華清池
温泉水滑洗凝脂
"A Song of Unending Sorrow"
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春寒賜浴華清池 温泉水滑洗凝脂
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Bai Juyi 12
Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty 772–846Related quotes
“Pure and perfect, sweet arbutus
Twines her rosy-tinted wreath.”
The First Flowers; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 39.
"To Juan at the Winter Solstice," lines 37–42, from Poems 1938-1945 (1946).
Poems
“Her love was entire as a child’s, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring.”
Source: Far From The Madding Crowd
Section J of 26 Facts About Flesh and Ink
The Pillow Book
"A Song Of Pure Happiness I" (清平调之一)
The Golden Violet - title poem - introduction
The Golden Violet (1827)
<p>L’homme qui, dès le commencement, a été longtemps baigné dans la molle atmosphère de la femme, dans l’odeur de ses mains, de son sein, de ses genoux, de sa chevelure, de ses vêtements souples et flottants,</p><p>Dulce balneum suavibus
Unguentatum odoribus,</p><p>y a contracté une délicatesse d’épiderme et une distinction d’accent, une espèce d’androgynéité, sans lesquelles le génie le plus âpre et le plus viril reste, relativement à la perfection dans l’art, un être incomplet.</p>
"Un mangeur d'opium," VII: Chagrins d'enfance http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Paradis_artificiels_-_II#VII_CHAGRINS_D.E2.80.99ENFANCE
Les paradis artificiels (1860)